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[viscera-doodles]

OH SHIT I realized I never posted this. Ok so I got these headcannons from the Lego Dimensions GLaDOS song where she mentions being friends w/ Batman. But like, I kinda wanted to translate that to where I felt it would fit the Half Life/Portal universe? So I was like, omg what if Bruce was a fictive. Hence the character(s) you see above!

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The idea was that Bruce n Co. were born after Earth got taken over by The Combine (bear w/ me here because my knowledge of Half Life lore is shaky at best, I still have yet to finish the first Half Life game too so don’t spoil me <3) and met GLaDOS a couple years after the events of Portal 2. (I kinda headcannon that, by this point, Chell has already found and made friends w/ Alyx n Gordon) Bruce stumbles upon GLaDOS’s place while seeking refuge from the harsh environment after a recent disaster ripped an opening into GLaDOS’s complex that she still had yet to finish fixing. Bruce has met many troubled and “morally-challenged” people over the course of his life, and GLaDOS isn’t much different. GLaDOS is privately happy for the company, and has improved somewhat as a person during her journey of learning how to care for her crow children. But, as you’d expect- she still struggles greatly in the human people department. As they hang out, GLaDOS slowly opens up little by little. I’d imagine at some point, Bruce has a conversation relating to her, about how they both have memories from outside their current state (Bruce, from the Batman character, and GLaDOS from Caroline), while also being their own people independent from those memories’ origins. This helps both Bruce n Co. and GLaDOS feel a little less alone, in that regard. I also like to think that, as GLaDOS reminisces and vagues about Chell, Bruce correctly guesses that GLaDOS had, and still has, feelings for her.